DIS applications to intercept phones overwhelm courts-claim

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Although there have been claims that the Directorate on Intelligence and Security (DIS) have made countless court application to intercept people's private phones the Registrar and Master of High Court Godfrey Nthomiwa yesterday while confirming that there have been some applications said he could not recollect how many such applications have been made.

Ntlhomiwa said some of the applications are made at magistrate's courts thus making it difficult to tally the numbers. 

Information reaching Mmegi however indicates that applications for interceptions from the DIS are overwhelming many courts in the country. Mmegi had sought to establish the total number of these applications, how many were granted, how many were turned down and what the reasons for turning the applications down were?

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